For the business software targeting small and medium business, Crystal Reports
have become an industry de-facto standard reporting system. MS Team has
developed hundreds of desktop and Web-based professional looking reports
using Crystal Reports.
If you are looking for an alternative to Crystal reports, we, at MS Team, know the
response. Microsoft has been bundling Crystal Reports into their Visual
Studio suite for years, but finally came with its own reporting
solution: Microsoft Reporting Services. This product, while only picking
up the pace, will surely become the reporting system of the choice on Microsoft
development platform, because of its tight integration with .NET and MS
SQL Server and enterprise level reporting capabilities. We have already
ported Crystal Reports-based reporting systems to Reporting Services for
several customers. On our opinion, Microsoft Reporting Services is a reasonable
alternative to Crystal Reports.
If you are looking for something simpler, you may want to consider using Active
Reports for .NET. This reporting system is ideal for small Independent
Software Vendors, because it provides a complete set of the functions
you would typically expect from a reporting system at a fair price, while
having some nice additions, including an end-user report designer. MS Team has
successfully used Active Reports for .NET in a number of software development
projects and we do recommend it to our customers when they look for a modest
alternative to Crystal Reports.
Interesting facts:
All the companies are looking for the ways to be more efficient. There is not
much they can do about declining revenue and customers not buying as much as
before. Finding new customers is hard. Thus efficiency is the biggest issue:
How can we optimize business processes? You have automated business
processes. Now it is time to optimize them. Processes have gotten faster, but
not better.
People want more Business Intelligence added to these processes. They
need to use information to do things differently. Business Intelligence is
a step forward from original passive monitoring systems to a much more active
performance-management system.
Why spend time and money to learn all the tricks and
issues the hard way? Outsource report development for your business software to
us. Reports are not the only thing we do. See the pages dedicated to
“Forex software development”, “Microsoft
Server programming”, “Database
design”, and “Silverlight Development”.
Do not hesitate to contact
our experts to find out more how we can help you to have a better grip
over the information and reporting systems.
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